Chilandepa Primary School has been a Classrooms for Malawi partner since 2017. The school is in rural Blantyre, where communities have poor infrastructure and little or no access to basic services. The school roll is 811, with 14 teachers across eight classes, in addition the school has only one latrine for all pupils.
In 2017, when our partnership began,
Mlambe 1 Primary School is situated around 40 minutes north of the city of Blantyre. The school was established in 1924 and currently consists of 4 blocks, each with 2 working classrooms. There are currently 582 pupils (317 boys and 265 girls) enrolled, and 9 teachers employed giving a ratio of approximately 1:65.
In terms of work required,
Dzenza Primary School, in central Malawi, has been supported by Gleniffer High School and Classrooms for Malawi for several years now.
In 2014 5 classrooms – which previously lay derelict – were renovated by a team from Gleniffer High with support from Intu Braehead and Classrooms for Malawi.
Gleniffer High have developed a strong partnership with the school and community and will be returning to renovate a further five classrooms this summer.
Namulenga Primary School is a school Classrooms for Malawi has worked with since our inception. With the support of St. Bernadette’s Church Partnership, we have renovated 9 classrooms and repaired the school roof which was badly damaged during the floods of 2015.
Returning this summer – again with the support of St Bernadette’s Partnership – our 2016 volunteer team will be building our first ever special education needs block.
Lirangwe Primary School is typical of many in Malawi – overcrowded and dilapidated – it is simply unfit for children.
Our 2016 volunteer team have been working hard to raise money to renovate 6 classrooms and build 3 new classrooms in a bid to make the school a safer, more dynamic learning environment.
With our Malawi building partners already having begun construction work,
This project in the remote village of William is the most ambitious project for Classrooms for Malawi to date: building a school where there was previously no school at all.
In 2015, working in partnership with Renfrewshire Council Building Services, Classrooms for Malawi constructed a three classroom block, a school feeding kitchen and a teacher’s house. Our partner charity – the Well Foundation – also installed an irrigation system while a local social enterprise sewed school uniforms.
When Classrooms for Malawi first visited Michiru Primary School, sitting at the foot of Michiru mountain, many children were taught outdoors due to lack of classrooms and overcrowding. When the rainy season came, pupils simply could not go to school, meaning their education suffered greatly.
Working through our volunteer team in the summer of 2015, Classrooms for Malawi worked to construct three brand new classrooms which now stand where before there was only waste ground.
Ngumbe Secondary School is a large residential school based in Blantyre in the south west of Malawi.
When Classrooms for Malawi first visited the school, the children slept in makeshift dormitories which were cramped, concrete blocks unfit for accommodation. The large, open rooms had leaking roofs and no windows or beds. The row of thin mattresses lined up on the floor were where the children called home.
Misesa Primary School holds a special place in our heart at Classrooms for Malawi as it was the first project we identified back in 2012. With a roll in excess of 2000 children, the school was in urgent need of new classrooms and renovation of existing structures. No classrooms had been constructed since the school opened in the 1960’s despite the school roll growing exponentially.
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